Six party platforms from 1840-1860 that supported slavery.
Twenty Democratic Party platforms from 1868-1948 that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject.
The use of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease described the Klan as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”
The Democratic Party opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.
And so it went as the Democratic Party built itself politically on a culture of racism that is now once again overflowing in this sudden drive of 21st century leftists to deny the original identity politics that created them — and which is still the nuclear core of their ideological energy.
https://spectator.org/is-it-time-to-ban-the-democratic-party/
Those who support reparations and happen to be black Americans and support the Democrats should take $100 dollars our of their right pocket, put it in their left pocket and then stop whining about shit that happened 150 years ago. Or Get their reparations from the English.
Their reparations should come from the blacks back in Africa. If it weren’t for constant tribal warfare among Africans, the slave trade would’ve been next to impossible. In fact, the biggest slavers in the Atlantic slave trade weren’t Europeans, they were the Bono Ashanti, who captured and enslaved other Africans and sold them to Europeans for guns and ammo so they could continue their wars and enslaving other blacks.
And I don’t hear anyone bitching about Latin America’s slavery problems. When Brazil abolished slavery, there were at least 15 million slaves in that country; when the US abolished slavery, there were only about 3 million here.
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